The Dandelion Coffee Panna Cotta recipe is a fancy-sounding but deceptively easy sweet to make, which should more properly be described as weed flavoured pudding! With it’s spicy biscuit, reminiscent of cardamom and warm, familiar coffee notes, your family and friends will not believe these sophisticated flavours come from the…
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This BBQ Wild Garlic & Hogweed with Chicken Recipe is a brilliant way to celebrate a hot spring utilising wild garlic in multiple forms. Cooking quickly over open flames is often the best way to enjoy wild ingredients. Ingredients: Chopped veg (peppers, onion, par boiled potato) chunky chopped so it…
Realistically any mixture of wild edibles can be chucked into a Wild Salad bowl and when dressed with tasty vinaigrette, something warm like wilted Nettles and Wild Garlic and something crunchy like croutons or fried bacon and it will taste just delightful. Ingredients: 200g gem lettuce, roughly chopped A mix…
Here we’re Cooking up a Sea Beet Saag Alloo, but You can use a vast range of wild greens instead of spinach in Saag Aloo, however my favourite by far is Sea Beet Saag Aloo – the beet bring a nice salty spinach flavour to the dish and lightens up…
This recipe uses Nettle and Wild Garlic, but it’s a great way to use up any greens you have. Bar the onion/carrot you can freestyle this to use up whatever you’ve got. Wear gloves if you’re using nettles!! If you don’t have potatoes, use rice or stale bread to thicken.…
Hogweed / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Common Hogweed doesn’t sound like an edible plant, but it is and it’s one of my favourites! Common Names Hogweed, Cow parsnip Botanical Name Heracleum Sphondylium Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Apiales Family – Apiaceae Physical Characteristics of Common…
This Wild Noodle Salad is a great and quick way to use whatever wild greens you can find around you, it works as well in spring with Wild Garlic and Nettles, in summer with wild seaweeds and Sea Purslane or autumn with Wood Blewits and Chanterelles. Ingredients (for 4 people):…
Through this article we’ll be taking a look at the common question, Can Hogweed Burn Your Skin? I always find it really interesting to see people’s reactions during a foraging course, as we pull up next to a fabulous patch of young succulent Common Hogweed Shoots and I go on…